Been playing with internal layout options for my #Pi64 today. I've gone with the #RaspberryPi Zero W, using a HDMI to VGA adapter to split out the audio signal, cos it fits so well in the tape port area. Userport will become 3 USB ports.

It's been a while I posted a #keyboard picture (not counting boosts), today, I'll break the silence. I'll just leave these pretty pictures here. It's not a complete build yet, but one I might need to follow and post new pictures of, because it radiates a kind of old elegance.

In the realm of Santa, it is not all fun and games, not everything they make there is brightly colorful, or playful, nor is everything an elaborate way to reuse legacy systems. Sometimes a bit of darkness needs to be let out, to let the night shine elegantly in the moonlight. At least, that's the impression I get when looking at the Helix #keyboard, pictured below.

As it happens with computer systems, if you run anything for a longer period of time, some kind of Legacy will always accumulate. This is true for Santa's operation as well, and sometimes, modernisation has... interesting results. Such as this voice-recognition-based typing system. Using an ancient typewriter, and robot fingers. This is one way to turn something old into a modern #keyboard.

Letters from Santa may have been typed on something like this.. Maybe.

At the North Pole, they don't just make keyboards mounted on toy cars, or serious, ultimate hacking keyboards - no, they make things that what you'd expect from Santa, but like many toys, they have uses besides entertainment. Today's #keyboard is such a device, an ergonomic gamepad. A rather unique design!

The picture today is very special. It's not from Santa's land, either, but was taken in a home in a country called Hungary. As it happens, @algernon's (yours truly) twins are one year old today. They always want to play with dad's keyboards, but since he works with those, they are off limits. Except today. Today they were introduced to a Shortcut #keyboard prototype! They loved it.

In the magical land of Santa, it is not all fun and games. They do incredible amounts of work there, and such work requires a lot of power. Dare I say, Nuclear power? And to wield such power, one needs a similar #keyboard, like the Ultimate "Nuclear" Hacking Keyboard.

Santa is perhaps best known for gifting toys to good kids, so perhaps it is not so surprising, that this wonderfully jolly little fellow exists: a #keyboard half mounted on a toy car, which serves as a tenting kit.

Seven months ago, around Christmas, Santa came and offered me a gift: he said I can leave with him, and have a look at the keyboards in his magical kingdom. That was an offer one cannot refuse, and I went. Seven months later, I was sent back to convey the good news: the magic of keyboards will continue, forever!

I will be sharing some of the marvelous devices I had the opportunity to see in the past months.

Good evening! Our #keyboard today follows the "simple is beautiful" theme: a JJ40 with XDA blanks and an elegant aluminium case. Ok, fine, it has underglow so is not super-simple. But we can agree it IS beautiful, right?